It was my birthday on Saturday and by pure luck my Raspberry Pi was delivered the day before - what a great day "hacking" (in the old sense of the word). I have been waiting for a few months for this delivery - What a treat!! If you have not heard...

Seasonal Greeting. My family decided to give me a Kindle e-book - Wow! So after the usual experiments with reading a book, playing with the web browser via WiFi, I then thought; Could this help me at work too! So reading up I noted it fully supports PDF...

Since 1.6 and even further with 1.7 Dojo has a brand new AMD loader. Among the numerous features
of the AMD loader like its ability to load various resources asynchronously, one of the great
advantage is that AMD is a common approach followed by several...

GEN-8 The next console wars! PROJECT CAFE (Gen 7.5 Nintendo Wii-2) (under construction) With the announcement of NINTENDO's project CAFE, it looks like were seeing the first glimpses of what will no doubt amount to another epic battle for your video game...

NATIVE PLATFORM INDEPENDENCE THROUGH VIRTUAL OS (DirectOS) Yet another blog, about a topic that is very important for me right now. After APPLE's recent successes with the Universal Binary concept, coupled with their relentless STOCK MARKET success, and...

This morning, one of the first things I saw when I got on my computer was an ad for a new Chevy crossover vehicle. What caught my eye was that they compared the gas mileage on the highway to a competitor's. Using a benchmark with a nice footnote based on an...

Sometimes you eventually get to the place you wanted to go, but not exactly in the way you expected. And that's what I think happened this morning. You see, earlier today somebody in Brazil, wanting to find out more about IBM System x performance, happened...